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‘Nature has priority’: Rewilding map showcases nature-led restoration

John Cannon 11 Apr 2022

NGOs alert U.N. to furtive 2-million-hectare carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo

John Cannon 17 Mar 2022

‘No planet B’: Groups call for $60bn increase in annual biodiversity funding

John Cannon 13 Mar 2022

Indigenous-led report warns against ‘simplistic take on conservation’

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 8 Mar 2022

Malaysian officials dampen prospects for giant, secret carbon deal in Sabah

John Cannon 10 Feb 2022
Composite image. Left: Amazon rainforest - photo credit: Rhett A. Butler. Right: Burning forest in the Brazilian Amazon - image credit: Greenpeace

The year in rainforests 2021

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2021

Australia’s rainforest species gain ground through landscape linkages

Amanda Freeman 24 Dec 2021

Indigenous leader sues over Borneo natural capital deal

John Cannon 17 Dec 2021

$1.5 billion Congo Basin pledge a good start but not enough, experts say

Jim Tan 3 Dec 2021
primary forest in Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, by John C. Cannon/Mongabay

Bornean communities locked into 2-million-hectare carbon deal they don’t know about

John Cannon 9 Nov 2021

Study shows ‘encouraging’ results of China’s bid to protect coastal wetlands

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Nov 2021
A long-tongued nectar bat (Macroglossus minimus), a subspecies of which is found on New Britain Island. Image via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Deforestation notches up along logging roads on PNG’s New Britain Island

John Cannon 21 Oct 2021
Rainforest in the Colombian Amazon

Amazonian ecosystems and peoples on the brink – it is time for a new vision (commentary)

Mercedes Bustamante 18 Oct 2021
The forests of the Torricelli Mountain Range. Image courtesy of the Tenkile Conservation Alliance.

Deforestation threatens tree kangaroo habitat in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 14 Oct 2021
The aquatic life of the San Pedro Mártir River in Tabasco, Mexico, finds refuge in the submerged roots of the red mangrove forests. Image by Octavio Aburto.

Inland mangroves reveal a tumultuous climatic past — and hint at our future

John Cannon 14 Oct 2021

Africa’s montane forests are more carbon-dense than even the Amazon

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2021

Climate change threatens traditional extractive communities in the Amazon

Sibélia Zanon 30 Aug 2021
Prolonged dry conditions have caused the worst drought in central and southern Brazil in almost a century. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on NASA's Landsat 8 captured an image of Lago das Brisas on the Paranaíba River on June 17, 2021.

Lessons from Brazil’s São Paulo droughts (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 30 Jul 2021

Building back Miami’s Biscayne Bay: Do natural solutions hold hope?

Marlowe Starling 14 Jul 2021

A startup deploys black soldier flies in the Philippines’ war on waste

Bong S. Sarmiento 25 Jun 2021
Cacao pod in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Farmers in the Amazon could earn 9 times more and prevent ecosystem collapse

Jonah Wittkamper, Alexander Borges Rose, Denis Minev 22 Jun 2021

In Pennsylvania, agroforestry holds a key to cleaning up waterways and Chesapeake Bay

Sarah Derouin 27 May 2021
Rainforest creek in the Colombian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Humanity’s dysfunctional relationship with Earth can still be fixed, report says

Mongabay.com 22 Apr 2021
Pair of zebra in Rwanda. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Momentum is building for a ‘robust’ biodiversity framework: Q&A with Elizabeth Mrema

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Apr 2021
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‘Opening the lid’ on toilet innovation: Q&A with author Chelsea Wald

John Cannon 6 Apr 2021
The Javari River where it forms the border between Peru and Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Rivers can be climate change solutions, too (commentary)

Michele Thieme 30 Mar 2021

Developing nations pay for rich countries’ hunger for healthy, exotic food

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Mar 2021

An economic case for competing in the XPRIZE Rainforest contest (commentary)

Jonah Wittkamper 1 Mar 2021
Satellite image of Mount Aspiring National Park, New Zealand in February 2021. Photo credit: Maxar Technologies and Planet.

‘Everything on this planet is connected’: Q&A with WWF’s Marco Lambertini

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Feb 2021

Big dream: NGO leads in creating 1,615-mile Amazon-Cerrado river greenbelt

Jenny Gonzales 17 Feb 2021
black-tailed godwits (Limosa limosa) in a fight for their territory in Mangalajodi Wetlands (Chilika - Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention), Odisha, India. By Arijit Mondal via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Researchers urge better protection as wetlands continue to vanish

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Feb 2021
Degraded forests are highly susceptible to fires set by ranchers and farmers. This August 2019 is burning into degraded forest from a recently cleared area. Image © Fábio Nascimento.

Lasers reveal steep decline in ecosystem function of degraded Amazon forests

Tess Joosse 16 Dec 2020

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